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Gotama Buddha: A Biography Based on the Most Reliable Texts
Author(s): Nakamura, Hajime
ISBN10:  4333020727
ISBN13:  9784333020720
Format:  Paperback
Pub. Date:  9/15/2005
Publisher(s): Tuttle Pub

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Table of Contents
Preface to Volume Two 9(4)
PART TWO: The Last Journey
7. Returning Home
13(76)
Texts Dealing with the Last Journey
13(6)
The Significance of the Last Journey
19(9)
Why Gotama Buddha undertook the long journey,
19(2)
The birth and death of Sariputta,
21(2)
The birth and death of Moggallana,
23(1)
The birthplaces of Sariputta and Moggallana,
24(1)
Returning home,
24(4)
At Vulture Peak
28(16)
Rajagaha and Vulture Peak,
28(2)
Vulture Peak today,
30(4)
Ajatasattu's command,
34(3)
Interview with Sakyamuni the seven principles of stable government,
37(7)
Discourse to the Bhikkhus
44(6)
Site of the discourse,
44(1)
The seven ways to prevent decline,
45(4)
The six ways to prevent decline,
49(1)
Departure
50(13)
En route to Pataliputra the discourse at Bamboo Grove Park,
50(2)
At Pataliputra words to the lay followers,
52(3)
Discourse to the lay followers of Pataligama,
55(3)
The fate of Pataliputra,
58(3)
Crossing the Ganges,
61(2)
To Kotigama and Nadika
63(3)
At Nadika—the Fate of the Dead
66(3)
At Vesali
69(20)
The site of Vesali,
69(2)
The history of Vesali,
71(2)
The courtesan Ambapali,
73(5)
Visit by the Licchavi nobles,
78(6)
Discourse to the Licchavi nobles,
84(1)
Ambapali's invitation,
84(5)
8. Falling Ill on the Journey
89(48)
Looking Over the Whole of Life
89(7)
The rainy-season retreat at Beluva,
89(1)
Falling ill,
90(6)
Decision to Enter Nibbana
96(2)
Mara's Temptation
98(4)
The Great Earthquake
102(5)
The earthquake,
102(3)
The eight kinds of assemblies,
105(2)
The Fate of Being Parted by Death
107(4)
Announcing the decision to die,
107(1)
To Bhandagama,
108(3)
The Four Great Instructions Taught at Bhoganagara
111(4)
The Blacksmith Cunda
115(12)
To Pava,
115(1)
Cunda's offering,
116(1)
The four types of ascetic,
117(3)
Food poisoning,
120(4)
The verse description,
124(1)
Continuing with the journey,
125(2)
Pukkusa's Acceptance of the Buddha's Teachings
127(5)
Pukkusa's experience,
127(1)
The Buddha's experience,
128(2)
Pukkusa's offering,
130(1)
The Buddha's body shines gold,
131(1)
To the Kakuttha River
132(5)
9. The Great Demise
137
At Kusinara
137(18)
On the bank of the Hiraññavati,
137(4)
Ananda's lamentation,
141(2)
Dissatisfaction with Kusinara,
143(2)
The salutations of the Mallas,
145(1)
The ordination of Subhadda,
146(9)
Approaching Death
155(22)
The last instructions,
155(2)
The Buddha's death,
157(1)
Dating the Buddha's death,
158(3)
Kusinagar,
161(9)
The place name,
161(1)
Visiting Kusinagar,
162(5)
Kuginagar in historical records,
167(3)
Grief over the Buddha's death,
170(4)
Lamentation of the disciples,
174(1)
The nirvana ceremony and nirvana pictures,
175(2)
The Funeral
177(10)
The funeral,
177(3)
Preparations for the cremation,
180(3)
Mahakassapa's late arrival,
183(2)
The cremation,
185(2)
Distribution and Veneration of the Relics
187(9)
Dispute over the relics,
187(2)
Distribution of the relics and stupa veneration,
189(3)
Discovery of the relics,
192(4)
The Historicity of Gotama Buddha
196
An overview of research into the Buddha's dates,
196(2)
The character of Gotama,
198
PART THREE: The Deification of Gotama the Man
10. Venerated as a Human Being
203(1)
11. The Beginnings of Deification
213(14)
List of Abbreviations 227(2)
Notes 229(98)
Appendix: Chinese Buddhist Sources 327(8)
Bibliography 335(2)
Index 337

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